Author: Leon Hastings

Publisher:

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 9781849031929

Trixie: The Christmas Cow is a delightful story about how an ordinary baby cow, rescued by St. Nicholas and his reindeer, was accepted and loved by the entire Christmas Village. However, as this calf matured into a young cow named Trixie, she was eventually forced to realize that she could never achieve her dream of leaping and flying like her reindeer playmates. Trixie sank into a state of deep depression as she wondered what could she, an ordinary awkward cow, contribute. In fact, everyone in the Christmas Village struggled to define a meaningful role for "a soon to be grown cow." However, special moments of pure joy often arise from the ashes of despair. For St. Nicholas received a simple, but profound, blessing from Trixie that led to his realization that she was uniquely suited to offer "a gift of hope" to children who might otherwise be neglected on Christmas Eve. Thus, Trixie became the first "Christmas Cow" to travel throughout the world with St. Nicholas on each Christmas Eve. To this day, cows occupy a very special place in the heart of all mankind. And we remain forever grateful for all the nourishment - the gift of hope - that her kind has provided our little ones throughout the years, indeed throughout the centuries. The story is based on the hope that, in a small way, it will encourage the sharing of spiritual love - a love that transcends divisions caused by religion, politics, status, ethnic background, and race; that someday we can learn to treat each other, throughout the world, like the brothers and sisters that we already are.